Stewart Jamieson

PhD Candidate

WHOI's Autonomous Robotics & Perception Laboratory

Aerospace Controls Laboratory

Biography

I’m a PhD candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering. I’m developing multi-robot systems that can autonomously explore unfamiliar environments where communication is limited, such as the deep sea. I’m particularly interested in how to measure risk-based value of information in order to decide when and what to communicate between robots.

My co-supervisors are Dr. Yogesh Girdhar (WHOI) and Prof. Jonathan P. How (MIT).

Interests

Online Active Learning
Multi-Robot Systems
Deep Semantic Representations
Bayesian Modelling and Inference

Education

PhD in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, 2023 (Expected)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (5.0/5.0 CGPA)
SM in Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2020

Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (5.0/5.0 CGPA)
BASc in Engineering Science - Robotics, 2018

University of Toronto (3.83/4.0 CGPA)

Recent & Upcoming Talks

DeepSeeColor: Realtime Adaptive Color Correction for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Successful applications of complex vision-based behaviours underwater have lagged behind progress in terrestrial and aerial domains. This is …

May 30, 2023 3:00 PM — 4:40 PM London, United Kingdom

Stewart Jamieson, Jonathan P. How, Yogesh Girdhar

DeepSeeColor: Realtime Adaptive Color Correction for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Ocean Encounters: ROBOTS (Season 5, Episode 4)

Ocean robots are revolutionizing science at sea. Join us to find out how researchers are using increasingly sophisticated autonomous and …

May 24, 2023 7:30 PM — 8:45 PM Online

Mario Fernandez, Stewart Jamieson, Amy Kukulya, Veronique LaCapra

Ocean Encounters: ROBOTS (Season 5, Episode 4)

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Recent Publications

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Daniel Yang, Levi Cai, Stewart Jamieson, Yogesh Girdhar (2023). Robot Goes Fishing: Rapid, High-Resolution Biological Hotspot Mapping in Coral Reefs with Vision-Guided Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. CV4Animals Workshop at CVPR 2023.

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Yogesh Girdhar, Nathan McGuire, Levi Cai, Stewart Jamieson, Seth McCammon, Brian Claus, John E. San Soucie, Jessica E. Todd, T. Aran Mooney (2023). CUREE: A Curious Underwater Robot for Ecosystem Exploration. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

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Stewart Jamieson, Jonathan P. How, Yogesh Girdhar (2023). DeepSeeColor: Realtime Adaptive Color Correction for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles via Deep Learning Methods. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

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Accomplishments

Best Paper Award in Service Robotics at ICRA 2020

2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) June 2020

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Winning Team of the 2018 SAE/GM AutoDrive Challenge

aUToronto May 2018

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Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

WARPLab

June 2018 – Present Woods Hole, MA

Developing autonomous exploration algorithms for robot teams operating in the Benthic zone and deploying these algorithms onto WHOI’s world-class ocean exploration vehicles (WARPAUV, Sentry).

Software Team Lead

aUToronto (Student Design Team)

June 2017 – May 2018 Toronto, Canada

Led a team of 12 graduate and undergraduate students developing the system architecture, sensor drivers, vehicle control interface, and software services for an autonomous Chevrolet Bolt.